With the upcoming Gore-a-thon set for September 14th, Gore needs an attention boost more than ever. And that’s not all, the number of people that beleive the sun has a role is growing. 60% of likely U.S. Voters think it’s at least somewhat likely that the level of activity on the sun, including solar flares and sunspots, has an impact on the long-term heating and cooling of the earth’s atmosphere. Just 22% feel that it’s unlikely solar activity influences the atmosphere’s long-term temperature.
From Rasmussen reports:
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that just 24% of voters consider Gore an expert on global warming. Fifty-nine percent (59%) do not think Gore is an expert on the subject, an increase in skepticism of 12 points since March 2007. Another 18% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
While a plurality of Democrats (43%) considers Gore an expert on global warming, most Republicans (80%) and voters not affiliated with either major political party (65%) disagree.
Gore may disagree, but most voters believe solar activity has an impact on global cooling and warming. A narrow plurality gives human activity the edge over sun activity, though, when it comes to which one has a bigger impact on the problem.
Gore is viewed at least somewhat favorably by 40% of voters, with 14% holding a Very Favorable opinion of him. Fifty-three percent (53%) regard him at least somewhat unfavorably, including 38% with a Very Unfavorable view.
That’s some bad chakra. Even serial wailer Bill McKibben’s message on “weather is climate, it really is, especially when there’s a hurricane” is falling out of favor too:
With hurricane season in full swing, 41% of American Adults believe global warming is creating climate changes that lead to more extreme weather events. But that’s down 14 points from June 2008 when 55% felt that way. Forty-three percent (43%) disagree and say global warming is not producing more extreme weather.
Read the whole report here at Rasmussen reports
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The political agenda is that the West (or industrial nations) fork out money to help poor nations.
We do supply foreign aid? But when you think about it, this AGW goes deeper than this. The UN
Climate change fund has or will be ripping off Australia to the tune of 600 million A YEAR! To be distributed by the UN to undeveloped countries for the damage ‘We’ are doing to their environment via AGW Climate change. This human rights delegation of the UN, Libya was on it?
In my opinion, that to help undeveloped countries we should make sure they are energy sufficient
to drive important communications and electricity. Maybe this could be a petrol driven generator for a little hospital in Kenya, that has only one solar panel that can only provide enough energy to drive one small beer refrigerator where they keep all their vaccinations, serums, etc. It can’t drive at night lights or the refrigerator. An petrol driven generator would provide both, plus computers and TV’s. Or instead of investing in clean or green energy, here in Australia, give the starving at Cape 10 million to feed the worthy. Rick Perry might if he gets the primary numbers be
the best bet for America. So long as he doesn’t pick Sarah as his VP running mate? God Forbid.
RE: bushbunny: (September 10, 2011 at 2:53 am)
“Rick Perry might if he gets the primary numbers be the best bet for America. So long as he doesn’t pick…
Perhaps it will be a Perry/Cain ticket that takes the White House by storm…
bushbunny says:
September 10, 2011 at 2:53 am
Of course! We’d never want the candidate that both Democrats and Republicans loath because of her history of fighting corruption and cronyism within those two parties. Let’s just keep Sarah out of it, but ask either or both of those corrupt political parties go after UN corruption. (Certainly, corruption should recognize corruption–don’t you think?)
Yup, that’s the ticket!
/sarc off.
It would be interesting to plot the rise of CO2 and Gore’s followers, I’ll bet we could find a negative correlation. PROOF: Increased CO2 causes Doubters !!! ;-))
I have just heard that the UK is going to suffer from 80mph winds on Monday. If there are any gamblers on WUWT who would like to bet that Gore, the IPCC, the Met Office or all of them will blame it on global warming?
RockyRoad says:
September 10, 2011 at 7:15 am
Rocky – I’m not a big ‘Palin’ fan but you give credit where credit is due. She did shake up, expose, and disrupt significant corruption embedded in both political parties up in Alaska, while governor. Rather than buying into the popular media portrayal of her, folks need to dig a bit deeper….. to assess the merits of every candidate.
I have just been taught a lesson. I got part way through cleaning my car when the heavens opened, the car and I got soaked. The car has a 4.6 litre V8 engine, had it got a 1.0 litre straight 4 or an electric engine, then it would not have rained. This seems to be the logic used by Al Gore and his 24% followers.
hro001 kindly provided a link to the IPCC current position on climate change.
I followed the link and read down to the last paragraph which I re-read twice in disbelief.
It says:
The IPCC does not conduct new research. Instead, its mandate is to make policy-relevant assessments of the existing worldwide literature on the scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of climate change. Its reports have played a major role in inspiring governments to adopt and implement the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, a binding pact on greenhouse gas emissions.
In other words the global cooling of the last few years is to be ignored.
Anthony I think this is quite significant if you agree on my interpretation of it.
When the economy turns around, I suspect AGW concerns will become trendier.
I don’t think so.
It’s going to take a long while for the economy to turn around. If the meltdown in the USA is followed by a Eurozone meltdown (now well under way) and finally by a Chinese meltdown, full recovery could easily take another 5 years, even a decade.
And by the time all of that is cleared up, CAGW or CACC will have gone the way of phrenology and eugenics.
Is the Almor Gortry church of Hoax and Quackery losing disciples?
After hearing of Ban Ki-moon’s rants about the Aral Sea and Lake Chad, I’m surprised he didn’t throw in Lake Urmia/Oroumieh/Orumiyeh (spellings vary).
But it’s in Iran, and it wouldn’t be politic for the Secretary General of the UN to appear disrespectful of the Islamic Republic’s military theocracy.
I imagine that former Vice President Gore would find himself faced with a very serious moral dilemma if he were to ever wake up one morning and discover he had suffered an overnight epiphany such that he no longer believed the world was faced with a Global Warming problem and the danger of a runaway CO2 catastrophe.
RE: Mac the Knife: (September 10, 2011 at 9:55 am)
“Rather than buying into the popular media portrayal of her, folks need to dig a bit deeper….. to assess the merits of every candidate.”
Quite true. I suspect that there may be those who have contributed to this unfair media portrayal who might come to regret that activity if they find they have only opened the door for someone *they* view as even less desirable than Governor Palin.
Probably the same 25% that think the govt. was behind 9/11….
South Park appropriately labels these people as mental retards.
Eugenics never went away. It rebranded as progressivism and took over most of the world’s governments. We are now in a fight for our lives against it.
@RockyRoad says:
September 10, 2011 at 7:15 am
The interesting angle with Palin is that the exact same things were said about Reagan. Indeed, while there was less of it said due to the Internet still being in its infancy, the rhetoric was just as heated about how bad he was. And of course for any honest person over the age of 40, we know that he was the best president in modern times, bar none.
I really wish Palin would get in. I like Bachmann (an excellent VP) and Perry (not as enthused), but Palin is my first choice.
Thanks David, for stomping on ‘criminogenic’, a online source of viral stupidity!:]
O/T Hi Spector and PhilJourdon, I respect both your views as I am not American of course. But what about Ron Paul? The thing about Sarah, although I think she is absolutely stunning to look at, is she is not well versed with international politics or has not a world view commiserate with a political aide, let alone anyone who should be near the top end of politics. She was proven to be a loose cannon. She tends, in my opinion, to open her mouth before engaging her brain. However, humans walked with dinosaurs? We didn’t and she is a creationist not evolutionist.
Sometimes the observer sees all the game, not the players?
The nice thing about these forums is we are exposed to views from outside our little cocoons. I have learned a lot about Australia Politicis reading Joanne Nova’s blog, so I am happy to respond to Bush Bunny here.
Ron Paul is of course a libertarian. As such, he has some great economic ideas. He is socially liberal (the hallmark of a libertarian is less government period – which conforms to the “live and let live” of some of the social issues of this time). But he is also an isolationist. WHile not totally wrong in that regard (we do need to stop being the world’s policemen), his views do run to the pure side of it and wants us to withdraw to our borders (and let the world care for itself). I see that as a problem. We have been shown twice in the past 70 years that isolationism does not work (12/7/41 and 9/11/01). While we may not need to be galivanting around the Middle east interfering in Egypt, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and Iraq, it is evident that we need to be on guard against rogue nations like Iran. We can go into the exact meaning at another venue.
That is why I do not support him. I understand his positions, and agree with most of them. But our president is unlike a prime minister in a key area. While he can preen for the cameras on domestic issues, his real legacy is in foreign policy (congress does the heavy lifting on Domestic issues, although not recently).